The Damascus Road Podcast

Week 3 of Shareable Teacher: Megan Stibrich While the Gospel is objective truth, how do you know it? How do you know it is true? Nowadays, people don’t always trust you when you claim something is true. But when we have built up a relationship, familiarity, and trust with someone, they will listen to our story, our experiences with God. People may be able to doubt some abstract truth claim about G...

Week 2 of Shareable Teacher: Tyler Stibrich Sharing the Gospel includes sharing our lives as well. We extend hospitality and invite people to join us for meals and parties and whatever else we are doing. We can invite our friends into a Christian community even before they would call themselves Christians. They can belong before they believe. We create space for people to enter into our community...

Week 1 of Shareable Teacher: Brad Miller  Before we can tell anyone anything, they need to trust us. They need to see that we are trustworthy, that we mean what we say and believe it ourselves. For too many, the fact that we are Christians makes us untrustworthy. They’ve been judged and rejected by Christians. They’ve seen Christians preach generosity and humility from grand stages before lea...

Week 3 of Crafted Teacher: Ryan Miller  We all have 24 hours a day - no more no less. How we spend those hours becomes the sum of our lives. We need to choose God-honoring work instead of fruitless toil, and restorative rest instead of lifeless leisure. To do that we need to embrace rhythms that help our lives look more like Jesus, individually and as a community. One hour, one day, and one w...

Week 2 of Crafted Teacher: Megan Miller  The space we live in shapes us. What is at the center of our living space? Is it the kitchen for making meals together? The table for gathering around? The piano to make music to be enjoyed? Or the tv to sit and watch? If we want to choose character in our lives together we need to make it a part of the furniture. We need to find ways to make the value...

Week 1 of Crafted Teacher: Ryan Miller  If we want to be people of character we have to resist the call of easy everywhere. If we aren’t careful instead of serving us and helping us flourish, technology promotes isolation instead of connection, entertainment instead of participation, and stagnation instead of growth. But life together is a life we share and we need to make the hard choices to...

Week 14 of The Holy Man Teacher: Megan Stibrich // 2 Kings 6:24-33, 7:1-2 //  Have you heard of this Holy Man, Elisha, and the tales of what he did? If you haven't, be prepared for some plow-burning, magical oil, invisible armies, and trapdoors opening in the sky! But also be prepared to meet God -- the God who spoke thousands of years ago through a holy man named Elisha and the God who showe...

Week 13 of The Holy Man Teacher: Tyler Stibrich // 2 Kings 6:24-33, 7:1-2 //  Have you heard of this Holy Man, Elisha, and the tales of what he did? If you haven't, be prepared for some plow-burning, magical oil, invisible armies, and trapdoors opening in the sky! But also be prepared to meet God -- the God who spoke thousands of years ago through a holy man named Elisha and the God who showe...

Week 12 of The Holy Man Teacher: Devynn Brankel // 2 Kings 6:18-23 //  Have you heard of this Holy Man, Elisha, and the tales of what he did? If you haven't, be prepared for some plow-burning, magical oil, invisible armies, and trapdoors opening in the sky! But also be prepared to meet God -- the God who spoke thousands of years ago through a holy man named Elisha and the God who showed up in...

Week 11 of The Holy Man Teacher: Megan Miller // 2 Kings 6:8-17 //  Have you heard of this Holy Man, Elisha, and the tales of what he did? If you haven't, be prepared for some plow-burning, magical oil, invisible armies, and trapdoors opening in the sky! But also be prepared to meet God -- the God who spoke thousands of years ago through a holy man named Elisha and the God who showed up in pe...

Week 10 of The Holy Man Teacher: Ryan Miller // 2 Kings 5:15-27 // Have you heard of this Holy Man, Elisha, and the tales of what he did? If you haven't, be prepared for some plow-burning, magical oil, invisible armies, and trapdoors opening in the sky! But also be prepared to meet God -- the God who spoke thousands of years ago through a holy man named Elisha and the God who showed up in person t...

Week 9 of The Holy Man Teacher: Tyler Stibrich // 2 Kings 4:42-44 // Have you heard of this Holy Man, Elisha, and the tales of what he did? If you haven't, be prepared for some plow-burning, magical oil, invisible armies, and trapdoors opening in the sky! But also be prepared to meet God -- the God who spoke thousands of years ago through a holy man named Elisha and the God who showed up in person...

Week 8 of The Holy Man Teacher: Megan Stibrich // 2 Kings 5:1-15 // Have you heard of this Holy Man, Elisha, and the tales of what he did? If you haven't, be prepared for some plow-burning, magical oil, invisible armies, and trapdoors opening in the sky! But also be prepared to meet God -- the God who spoke thousands of years ago through a holy man named Elisha and the God who showed up in person...

Week 7 of The Holy Man   Teacher: Dave Chojnacki   // 2 Kings 4:18-37 //  Have you heard of this Holy Man, Elisha, and the tales of what he did? If you haven't, be prepared for some plow-burning, magical oil, invisible armies, and trapdoors opening in the sky! But also be prepared to meet God -- the God who spoke thousands of years ago through a holy man named Elisha and the God who...

Week 6 of The Holy Man Teacher: Megan Miller // 2 Kings 4:8-17 //  Have you heard of this Holy Man, Elisha, and the tales of what he did? If you haven't, be prepared for some plow-burning, magical oil, invisible armies, and trapdoors opening in the sky! But also be prepared to meet God -- the God who spoke thousands of years ago through a holy man named Elisha and the God who showed up in per...

Week 5 of The Holy Man   Teacher: Ryan Miller // 2 Kings 4:1-7 //  Have you heard of this Holy Man, Elisha, and the tales of what he did? If you haven't, be prepared for some plow-burning, magical oil, invisible armies, and trapdoors opening in the sky! But also be prepared to meet God -- the God who spoke thousands of years ago through a holy man named Elisha and the God who showed up i...

Week 4 of The Holy Man   Teacher: Devynn Brankel // 2 Kings 3:1-27 //  Have you heard of this Holy Man, Elisha, and the tales of what he did? If you haven't, be prepared for some plow-burning, magical oil, invisible armies, and trapdoors opening in the sky! But also be prepared to meet God -- the God who spoke thousands of years ago through a holy man named Elisha and the God who showed...

Week 3 of The Holy Man Teacher: Tyler Stibrich // 2 Kings 2:15-18 //  Have you heard of this Holy Man, Elisha, and the tales of what he did? If you haven't, be prepared for some plow-burning, magical oil, invisible armies, and trapdoors opening in the sky! But also be prepared to meet God -- the God who spoke thousands of years ago through a holy man named Elisha and the God who showed up in...

Week 2 of The Holy Man   Teacher: Brad Miller   // 2 Kings 2:1-14 //  Have you heard of this Holy Man, Elisha, and the tales of what he did? If you haven't, be prepared for some plow-burning, magical oil, invisible armies, and trapdoors opening in the sky! But also be prepared to meet God -- the God who spoke thousands of years ago through a holy man named Elisha and the God who sho...

Week 1 of The Holy Man Teacher: Megan Stibrich // 1 Kings 19:19-21 //  Have you heard of this Holy Man, Elisha, and the tales of what he did? If you haven't, be prepared for some plow-burning, magical oil, invisible armies, and trapdoors opening in the sky! But also be prepared to meet God -- the God who spoke thousands of years ago through a holy man named Elisha and the God who showed up in...

Week 4 of Songs for the Soul   Teacher: Dave Chojnacki Worship is amazingly comforting and joy giving because it reminds us that God is good and He has a plan for us. We can find hope in the future, and the revelation song gives us a prophecy for what is yet to come. There will be a time when all things are made right again, when there is no more tears and pain, and we will be with God foreve...

Week 3 of Songs for the Soul Teacher: Ryan Miller  Worship is a personal practice that gives meaning to our experiences. The songs of the bible give us the perspective of people whose experiences were normally excluded from the narrative. Women were normally uneducated and therefore excluded from writing the bible, but not from writing songs. Women have always been a great part of God’s story...

Week 2 of Songs for the Soul Teacher: Megan Miller  Amos calls for Israel to repent over their terrible sins and start to love what is good again. We can’t start to accept God’s ways until we let go of our own. Repentance and confession is so easy to ignore but by embracing it we can glorify God’s greatness in our weakness. What can we learn from Amos about the importance of confession and re...

Week 1 of Songs for the Soul Teacher: Devynn Brankel  The response to wonder is to worship, which is what we see in Hannah’s story. Hannah prays for a son and God answers her prayer with not only what she wanted but with what she needed. She wanted a son but she really just needed to feel loved and valued in the kingdom of God. In her song, she praises God for his faithfulness in answering th...

Week 4 of I AM  Teacher: Tyler Stibrich The world can feel like a dangerous place. What do we do in the face of that danger and our fear? What reassurances do we have in God? Jesus declares that “I am the gate for the sheep. All who came before me were thieves and robbers… Those who come in through me will be saved.” A gate keeps out those who mean to hurt the sheep while providing access to...